synopsis: On January 7th 2005 an asylum seeker, shackled at his hands and feet, dies in a fire in cell number five of a police station in Dessau, Germany. With "Cell 5" Mario Pfeifer reconstructs the case of Oury Jalloh's death using legal documents, testimonies, audio-visual archives, and collaborates with the forensic expert Iain Peck to reproduce an accurate fire experiment. All in an attempt to answer: how could Oury Jalloh burn to death?
title: Cell 5 – A reconstruction | zelle 5 – eine rekonstruktion
Format: documentary
Length: 30 | 43 Minutes
technical specs: DCP, 4K, colour, 5.1 surround sound, english subtitles
Year: 2023
Countries of production: Germany, UK, USA
Status: Festival submissions, Exhibitions
cast: dennenesch zoudé
Producer /Director: Mario Pfeifer
Co-Producer: papermoon films, KOW
DoP: helmut Fischer, bettina Borgfeld
montage:mario pfeifer
sound design: thomas wallmann
scrore: kamran sadeghi
script: Mario Pfeifer, Alexander koch
stage design: jens eric vest
sound recording: alex von lengerken
post-production supervisor: jonas dahl
post-production: cine chromatix KG, Breeze gmbh
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the film was conceived in collaboration with the intiatiative in remembrance of oury jalloh e.v.
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Funders: BKM – Bundesbeauftrage für medien und kultur, HessenFilm, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Sächsische Landesanstalt für Rundfunk und neue medien, Kulturstiftung des freistaates sachsen, edith-russ-haus for media art oldenburG, kulturstiftung niedersachsen
